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“And a tiny looper caterpillar would be there, too, measuring, like a child’s finger and thumb, the rim of the table, and every now and then stretching upward to grope, in vain, for the shrub from which it had been dislodged.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory

“Until the day when God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words,—‘Wait and hope.”
― Alexandre Dumas père, The Count of Monte Cristo

“It is a disposition natural in women,” said Don Quixote, “to slight those who love them, and love those who hate them.”
― Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote

“En un lugar de la Mancha, de cuyo nombre no quiero acordarme, no hace mucho tiempo que vivía un hidalgo de los de lanza en astillero, adarga antigua, rocín flaco y galgo corredor.”
― Miguel de Cervantes